This was my instant reaction seeing the ranking also. A lot of things that can go either way. I was just too lazy to type it all out. Mainly the PGs, Hoss staying on the floor and getting Captain Dagger AK getting back to his old self and not throwing up wide open bricks.
This talk about a lot of questions with UConn. Every team has questions, UConn and Purdue seem to have less questions than everyone else and I like our overall talent more than theirs.
Right, our only real question is if we’re starting a top 15 freshman at small forward, or the returning junior with solid role player potential. Also feel like a lot of “benefit of the doubt” is deserved nationally speaking when you have this coaching staff, other less proven coaches should probably face more scrutiny for their questions heading into their season than ours.
Purdue's fans are horrible. When my brother and I went to the Final four in 2024. A lady came up to me in food line and said aren't you scared to be outnumbered so bad in fans. I just said WTF with my face. What I should of said was why would I when we are Champions. It was so nice routing them and being able to celebrate amongst all those Purdue fans who outnumbered us like 4 to 1. LOL!
Purdue fans have gotten pretty bad as of late. They act like they’re something special, but in reality they have a golf championship and a women’s basketball championship.
They were very confident going into that game. Basically, they expected us to take the same approach as the vast majority of their opponents and double and triple team Edey which in turn would leave their perimeter shooters open. I think they were shocked by the way that game turned out, but to be fair, so was Painter.
They may be horrible, but I don't think that story indicates that they are horrible
Then there’s the Eagles fans, who are are all turd burglars.
I've told this once before. We're at the World of Beer in Myrtle Beach a few years ago wearing UConn gear as we were in town for the bowl game. The bartender comes down wearing a gold-adjacent half-zip with a weird "P" on it. I said to myself "Purdue guy". At the time, Purdue and UConn were the only undefeated teams left so threw out an olive branch. "Hey" I said pointing to my shirt "You and us 1 and 2!" The guy says "I prefer to think of it as just 1". No trace of irony. That will forever be Purdue fan to me.
Yeah it does. The Purdue fans there acted like they had won more Championships than us and felt entitled. They smug way the lady from Purdue said that to me was awful. Trust me if you were there you would of been totally put off by a comment like that. At least win one before acting like you are entitled similar to Duke fans do when in the final four.
No she asked if I felt intimidated by their numbers and it was the way she said it like they were going to whip us so why are you even at this event. My brother was with me and he felt the same way with the way the woman approached me and said that. I only met other awful entitled Purdue fans when there. As I mentioned in another post they acted more entitled than Duke fans. Yuck!
I'm glad you're still with us to share this. It sounds like you went through something that was truly horrific.
Nah I have dealt with Duke fans in 2004 and Kentucky fans in 2011 & 2014 and after those Final Fours I needed therapy. JK.
You can't take this stuff too seriously. When we played Saint Bonnie's in a military appreciation game in Newark their fans were yapping quite a bit. This was the year that they got off to a pretty good start and they may have been undefeated or maybe just one loss or something. As we're walking out, they were pretty despondent. One guy said "I can't believe we lost to UConn. They are the worst team we've played so far this year." I looked up at him and said "Don't worry about it. The season is still young and I'm sure you'll lose to a lot of teams that are worse than us before it's over." After a moments pause even the Bonnie fans were laughing.
That's what makes them scary. If it was just some rando coach with a load of talented new players I could see not believing in them. Pitino can take a collection of good talent and make them great quickly, now he has a collection of great talent. If Hopkins is healthy they're the most talented roster top to bottom with an all-timer coaching them.
I know people knock him all the time but Self is a legitimate coach. It's not like him and Pitino are that far off in terms of career success.
Not RJ Luis though…
Yup…we learned the hard way.
You need to take a golf trip to Myrtle so you can return to the bar wearing some of your 2024 title merch
That’s a bunch of ifs. And if Pitino can do all of that, win a lot of games, and the BE he will be the same as many talented teams at that stage. He would have a shot to advance past the Round of 32 which he didn’t. What did Pitino this unbelievable coach do wrong against a 10 seed?
He gets 24/7 practice
